Dostoevsky's, "A Gentle Creature," resembles in many ways the archetypal story of Cinderella, however, this story is nowhere near the romantic stories one would be told as a child. Dostoevsky provides a sharp sense of reality by writing about the difficult situation of a young girl within Russian society during Dostoevsky's time. ... Dostoevsky in his introduction explains that the story is mean to be read as if, "A stenographer could have overhead him and taken down his words in shorthand" (Dostoevsky 670). ... " (Dostoevsky 705) She thought he had finally given up. ...

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Dostoevsky's Revolutionary Hero The fictional author of Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground claims that he has all the traits of the anti-hero. ... I think this is hat Dostoevsky's character is attempting to do in the second half of this novel. ... Dostoevsky's character indeed suffers in his individuality. ... Although the demeanor of Dostoevsky's underground character strikes one as loathsome, he seems to truly be an exemplar of the vital revolutionary hero....

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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky's life was dark and dramatic as his novels were. ... This quote is from a letter that Dostoevsky sent to his brother at the age of eighteen. ... Dostoevsky reveals this mystery through guilt. ... (Dostoevsky 130) This shows that he doesn't know what is happening to himself. ... "If I had committed the crime"(Dostoevsky 147). ...

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As Dmitri Merejkowski describes, Dostoevsky writes "hasty" with "clearly neglected language". ... Merejkowski implies that all of Dostoevsky's heroes are "God-tortured." ... Dostoevsky's delicate, symbolic language written in Russian is sadly different from its translated versions. ... Dostoevsky meticulously captures every shift and thought of Raskolnikov's mind. ... Instead, Dostoevsky shows us the power remorse and guilt play on the human mind. ...

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In the novel Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky, Dostoevsky utilizes three unlikely characters to portray this same image of the Holy Trinity. ... Dostoevsky makes it clear that Razumikhin is a significant character for a reason. ... Dostoevsky refers to Sonya throughout the book as a child, emphasizing her innocence and gentleness. ... Dostoevsky uses the symbol of a child to reveal Sonya's true innocence and good intentions. ... Dostoevsky also notes Sonya as a dove when Marmelodov is talking again, "My little Dove" (28). ...

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Crime and Punishment is a book written by Fyodor Dostoevsky who spent four years at a labour camp in Siberia, followed by four years of military service. Raskolnikov's time in a Siberian prison, described in the Epilogue of Crime and Punishment, is based on Dostoevsky's own experiences at a similar prison. ... During his time in prison Fyodor Dostoevsky underwent something of a political conversion, rejecting the radical socialist positions that had led to his arrest in favour of a conservative concern for traditional values. ... Petersburg during the time that Dostoevsky was writin...

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Dostoevsky takes this crude and radically expressive man, known as the underground man, and makes him into the narrator of the piece. ... However, Dostoevsky begins to submerge the reader into the piece through the human principles of conformity and exclusion, just as Morrison's politicians do. As opposed to how the politicians use inclusion as a promise and a disguise, Dostoevsky used exclusion as an attraction. ... Further, this response is apparent in Dostoevsky's novella as well. ... However, as the piece progresses Dostoevsky depicts the underground man as a relatable person, ju...

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A Religion Of Russia's Very Own The third of Fedor Dostoevsky's five major novels, The Devils, also erroneously titled The Possessed, is a powerful political tract inspired by an assassination in 1869 and written in 1872. ... Dostoevsky is largely attacking Russian socialism's tendency toward atheism and its attempt to replace Christianity with a cult of the masses. ... Offering the Christian response to modern atheism in Russia is the novelist Fedor Dostoevsky, "The West has lost Christ and that is why it is dying; that is the only reason."" ...

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Beginning with Socrates and ending with Dostoevsky, our study of literature regarding human nature this quarter was quite extensive. Of notable interest was the seeming drift toward pessimism as the years went on; Socrates and Plato were arguably the most optimistic, and then came the ever-pessimistic Machiavelli, and finally we ended up with Dostoevsky and Huxley, whose grim outlooks on human nature were somewhat unnerving. ... Dostoevsky, through the Grand Inquisitor through Ivan, gives us a very disheartening outlook on human nature. ... Dostoevsky's reasoning appears to be that p...

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Dostoevsky makes numerous references in his novel concerning the direct impact one's living quarters can make upon their life and it is these specific references that further illustrate Dostoevsky's themes and characters. The living space of Dostoevsky's main character, Raskolnikov, is a scene that holds a variety of significant events. ... The living quarters of Raskolnikov helps Dostoevsky further develop his themes and the personality of his characters. ... The home is indeed where the heart is, an undoubtedly true expression in Dostoevsky's novel. Dostoevsky illu...

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Dostoevsky makes numerous references in his novel concerning the direct impact one's living quarters can make upon their life and it is these specific references that further illustrate Dostoevsky's themes and characters. The living space of Dostoevsky's main character, Raskolnikov, is a scene that holds a variety of significant events. ... The living quarters of Raskolnikov helps Dostoevsky further develop his themes and the personality of his characters. ... The home is indeed where the heart is, an undoubtedly true expression in Dostoevsky's novel. Dostoevsky illu...

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Dostoevsky uses an argument between protagonist and antagonist to unveil Raskolnikov's philosophy. ... With these thoughts, Dostoevsky reveals Raskolnikov's true preoccupations with Nietzsche's philosophy. ... Dostoevsky introduces Raskolnikov's close friend, Razumikhin, to show the extension of Raskolnikov's isolation. ... Through the characterization of Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky clearly portrays the essence of crime and punishment. ... Through Raskolnikov, Dostoevsky gets a theme across to his audience: Sin will be punished; no sin will go unpaid for....

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In Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky explores the psychological aspects involved in criminal investigation and its effects on criminals. ... By shifting the focus, Dostoevsky suggests that guilt can destroy the human psyche worse than any punishment by the hands of men. By using emotions, Dostoevsky allows the reader to look inside the mind of a criminal. ... With this emotional torment, Dostoevsky shows the weakness of Raskolnikov's emotional stability. ... Dostoevsky paints Raskolnikov as a character that despises anything in which he has no control, m...

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Dostoevsky utilizes other characters in order to fully develop the complex picture of his central character Raskolnikov. ... Dostoevsky shows Porfiry opposed to both the legal and the moral transgressions of Raskolnikov's crime. ... He embodies Dostoevsky's theme that punishment imposed on a criminal does little good if the man himself rejects his own guilt. In addition, Dostoevsky further elaborates Raskolnikov's character by introducing his similarities to Porfiry. ... Dostoevsky stresses Sonia's belief in the power of suffering for others. ...

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In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky delves deep into the life and mind of Rodion Raskolnikov, a destitute student and a resident of St. ... Although Dostoevsky's vocabulary is extensive, it is not too difficult of a read. Through Dostoevsky's unparalleled ability to describe any action or scene, he allows the reader to vividly relive the story on all sensory levels. ...

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The same stands for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where the lead character, Rodion Raskolnikov, demonstrates multiple stages of craziness but when examined by the a sensible reader his actions seem to be profound logic. ... Zossimov is not the only one to see Raskolnikov's strange ways, Razumihin, Raskolnikov's friend, thinks Raskolnikov to be "simply cold and inhumanely callous"(Dostoevsky 187). ... Luzhin's theory of "love yourself before all men, for everything in the world rest on self interest"(Dostoevsky 131) represent Raskolnikov's mindset and giv...

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The same stands for Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, where the lead character, Rodion Raskolnikov, demonstrates multiple stages of craziness but when examined by the a sensible reader his actions seem to be profound logic. ... Zossimov is not the only one to see Raskolnikov's strange ways, Razumihin, Raskolnikov's friend, thinks Raskolnikov to be "simply cold and inhumanely callous"(Dostoevsky 187). ... Luzhin's theory of "love yourself before all men, for everything in the world rest on self interest"(Dostoevsky 131) represent Raskolnikov's mindset and giv...

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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of a poor man in czarist Russia who can only purge himself of his guilt through suffering. ... Without this side being presented you view him as an evil murderer, and not a mislead victim, as Dostoevsky intends. ...

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(Dostoevsky: 126). ... Perhaps this is because in this way we want to show Dostoevsky as the other characters see the behavior of Raskolnikov. ... I have come to proponértelo "(Dostoevsky: 380).. ... (Dostoevsky: 519). ... Rodion is created by Dostoevsky as a character who could represent anyone who commits this crime and under the circumstances raised in the book, I think the vast majority of people come to do exactly what he did Raskolnikov....

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Effect of Suffering in Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky utilizes the concept of suffering in his novel, Crime and Punishment to develop plot and advance the complexity of his characters. ... Only through major complications and unwise decisions does Dostoevsky illuminate the protagonist, Raskolnikov, which suffering has the greatest effect upon. ... Dostoevsky highlights suffering and its effect on man through almost all characters in his novel. ... Dostoevsky reveals the dual personality of Rodya several times in the novel. ... Fyodor Dostoevsky uses the element of sorrow to concept...

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Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is the story of a poor man in Russia who mentally destroys himself of his guilt through pain and suffering. ... Without this side of Raskolnikov being told in the novel, the reader can only see him as an evil murderer, and not an mislead victim, as Dostoevsky tries to show. ...

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McKenna The novel Crime and Punishment, by Feodor Dostoevsky, depicts the moral dilemmas of Raskolnikov after he commits a heinous crime by murdering two innocent people. ... "I wanted to make myself a Napoleon, and that is why I killed her Now do you understand" (Dostoevsky 350). ... (Dostoevsky 351). ...

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Two authors that use unreliable narrators in their stories are Fyodor Dostoevsky and Edgar Allen Poe. The Dostoevsky book that is being referred to in this essay is Crime and Punishment, and the Poe stories that are being assessed are The Tell-Tale Heart, Black Cat, and The Cask of Amontillado. ... Edgar Allen Poe and Fyodor Dostoevsky make good use of unreliable narrators. ... Guilt is also a main motif in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky. ...

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In the same way, Raskolnikov, in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, tries to do what he knows to be logical and ignores his emotions, throwing away his own morals for the sake of a mere idea. ... Thoughts about the strangers he meets, the people close to him, and himself, in particular, illustrate his struggle most clearly, and demonstrate Dostoevsky's idea that people sometimes adhere to logic to avoid their true feelings. ... Although not to the same extent, we are acting in a similar manner to Raskolnikov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, as h...

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The "state of nature- of human beings was the focal point for many of the 1500th -1900th century philosophers. Many of these philosophers attempted to understand and describe humans in this original condition. One of the most intriguing aspects of man was the concept of human interaction as it pertained to cooperation and competition. Theories, hypothesizes, and explanations were plentiful and very diverse. As the various facets of man were studied, the exchange of ideas and information regarding human interaction created a variety of new philosophies. ...

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